Jo Stafford - Yes Indeed! [4CD Box Set] (2002)

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Artist: Jo Stafford
Title: Yes Indeed!
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Proper Records
Genre: Jazz, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue, log) / WAV (tracks)
Total Time: 4:51:17
Total Size: 649 mb / 2.87 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Jo Stafford's pitch is so good that it might as well be perfect. Her ability to put a song across with honesty and warmth made her the favourite singer of American soldiers in World War II. They called her "G.I. Jo". She was one of the best pop singers of her generation. This 99 track 4 CD set is the ultimate celebration of her career between 1940 and 1950. The 40 page booklet tells her story, contains discographical info and many rare pictures.

Jo Stafford was another of those supremely talented popular singers who skirted the fringe of jazz for most of a very successful career. Yes Indeed!, concentrating as it does on her pre-50s recordings (1940-50, to be exact), focuses on an era when the rhythm of jazz and the harmonic and lyric language of the blues was hard to escape, a fact which suited Stafford's proclivities to a T. Like Crosby, Sinatra and just about every other star vocalist to emerge prior to World War II, Stafford came to prominence through an initial involvement in a vocal group: hers was the Pied Pipers, and it was attached to Tommy Dorsey's band. This was during the period that Sinatra was Dorsey's lead male vocalist, so the Pied Pipers were a fixture on the Dorsey-Sinatra records of that time. The Pipers left Dorsey soon after Frankie did, and Stafford went solo soon after that. Signing with Johnny Mercer's fledgling Capitol label in 1943, she launched a solo career that was soon the most successful of any female artist's in that decade. During World War II she became the No. 1 singing sweetheart for US forces overseas and her popularity was sustained right into the 1950s. By then she was married to pianist/arranger Paul Weston, with whom she made many memorable records. Stafford's greatest quality was her combination of a pure tone and perfect intonation. She was also blessed with a sense of rhythmic ease given to few singers in any generation while her general musicianship is second to none. The songs here are mostly deeply romantic and her unadorned interpretations allow the listener to make of them what they wish. This is first-rate popular music that improves with every listen, even if nostalgia (real or by proxy) may be many people's first reason to make its acquaintance. Don't be fooled by the wrapping: this music has a solid centre. --Keith Shadwick

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1: For You
1) What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry (3.20)
2) Little Man With a Candy Cigar (3.12)
4) Yes Indeed! (3.32)
5) Swingin' On Nothin' (3.18)
6) Let's Just Pretend (3.17)
7) Who Can I Turn To? (3.06)
8) It Isn't A Dream Any More (3.10)
9) Embraceable You (2.54)
10) Blues in the Night (3.22)
11) The Night We Called It a Day (3.12)
12) Manhattan Serenade (3.17)
13) You Can Depend On Me (2.00)
14) Old Acquaintance (3.05)
15) How Sweet You Are (3.11)
16) Too Marvellous for Words (3.17)
17) I Remember You (3.07)
18) It Could Happen to You (3.07)
19) Long Ago and Far Away (2.57)
20) I Love You (2.44)
21) The Trolley Song (3.01)
22) Amor, Amor (2.47)
23) The Day After Forever (2.50)
24) I Didn't Know About You (3.12)

Disc 2: Candy
1) Tumbling Tumbleweeds (2.53)
2) Conversation While Dancing (2.57)
3) On the Sunny Side of the Street (2.58)
4) Let's Take the Long Way Home (3.00)
5) I'll Be Seeing You (2.25)
6) Candy (3.13)
7) There's No You (3.18)
8) That's for Me (2.46)
9) Symphony (2.28)
10) Day By Day (3.01)
11) The Boy Next Door (3.05)
12) Over the Rainbow (3.18)
13) Walkin' My Baby Back Home (2.46)
14) Sometimes I'm Happy (3.10)
15) Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (2.51)
16) Ridin' On The Gravy Train (3.01)
17) I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time (3.07)
18) This Is Always (3.02)
19) I've Never Forgotten (2.45)
20) You Keep Coming Back Like a Song (2.51)
21) (3.04)
22) Fools Rush In (3.08)
23) A Sunday Kind of Love (2.53)
24) Ivy (2.55)
25) Temptation (3.30)

Disc 3: Haunted Heart
1) Almost Like Being in Love (3.00)
2) Smoke Dreams (2.48)
3) I'm So Right Tonight (2.52)
4) Love and the Weather (3.00)
5) Feudin' And A Fightin' (2.43)
6) When You Got A Man On Your Mind (3.04)
7) The Stanley Steamer (3.11)
8) Serenade of the Bells (2.58)
9) The Gentleman Is a Dope (2.46)
10) Sugar (2.37)
11) Autumn in New York (2.41)
12) He's Gone Away (3.00)
13) The Best Things in Life Are Free (2.25)
14) I Never Loved Anyone (3.04)
15) Once And For Always (2.49)
16) Roses of Picardy (3.17)
17) Just One of Those Things (2.41)
18) Through the Years (2.40)
19) In the Still of the Night (2.49)
20) Haunted Heart (2.45)
21) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2.48)
22) Better Luck Next Time (3.04)
23) This Is the Moment (2.47)
24) Congratulations (3.02)
25) Make Believe (2.28)

Disc 4: 'A' You're Adorable
1) If I Loved You (2.59)
2) Suspicion (2.58)
3) Clabberin' Up for Rain (2.36)
4) Trouble in Mind (3.10)
5) By the Way (2.45)
6) My Darling, My Darling (2.37)
7) Just Reminiscin' (3.13)
8) On the Alamo (2.58)
9) Always True to You Darling in My Fashion (2.26)
10) 'A' You're Adorable (2.26)
11) Why Can't You Behave? (2.57)
12) Some Enchanted Evening (3.14)
13) Whispering Hope (3.08)
14) The Last Mile Home (2.22)
15) Ragtime Cowboy Joe (2.03)
16) If I Ever Love Again (3.20)
17) Red River Valley (2.48)
18) Scarlet Ribbons (2.30)
19) It's Great to Be Alive (2.49)
20) Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (2.19)
21) When April Comes Again (3.16)
22) Simple Melody (2.32)
23) No Other Love (3.00)
24) Autumn Leaves (2.34)
25) La Vie En Rose (2.57)

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